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fifty Degrees Below Zero.

10y
CWCAoO. .lanusTy S,-A special TO the
sIyBss from Fort KeOgh, Montana. says !:
The weather last night was the coolest OF
the season. The spirit thermometer NJ the
Post Hospital registered fifty degrees be-
low zero, which Is their minimum; but the
weather must have been much colder.
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senator Brown VIII MOI Resixs'
a.. .s.,....a -, a., tina fllaDatch.l

wAsHINGTON, January S.-Senatol
Brown, oi Georgia, has returned 70 l.e
city, lie was promptly intervleweu a. ~
the reports that he intended 70 Iesagn ~,
scat. Hs replied be had had a return Of 40
old throat trouble, which had kept hin
away until now, but that be bad returned
10 r.sume his duties In the Senate, ana
ihst fact. be thought, should be enough 70
show be- hsd no present Intention OF re-
signing.
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WEEKLY
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.

BALTIMORE, Md, January s.-Virginis 6s.
consolidated, 5SIs; past-due coupons. S5 /;
DO. l0.4O's, with coupon, ~ do. new 50,
e4: North Carolina SIS, old, 1881. Bat
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A Town burned.
lBy telegraph % the pispateh.

CHICAGO, January S.--A special 70 The
Tines from Dallas (Texas) says: The
Town 81 Duck Greek. containing 300 inhan-
ilants, and situated ten mites north OF this
city, was destroyed yesterday BY nre,
which oFig.pe'ed IN detective chimney.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09
The Observation-Disclosures nil.

WASHINGTON. January S.-Thc total ap.
preparation made 10y the rivorsnd-harbOr
bin as reported 10 the House to-day IA
g. 600, $50. Several items were added LOST
evening by the committee. bringing the
aggregate up TO the figures given above.
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by ttItkfApt 20 JIG D"PN0pu'I
SPRIy0FMLD, D., January S.-The Ohio
southern railroad machine and car-shops
caught Ore BY the explosion OF a torch In
INC ronnd.boi,se to-day and IL now mass
~ .s.lne etK loromoljyd4. two cars, much
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09
slCHaoSD srocx EaCsAnsK.

SATURDAY. January 1907.
SALES FIRST BoARD.-sl, 900 Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac dividend
scrip at 81, s4oO do. at 81, $4,000 do. at
81, $4,000 do. at 81, $1,000 do. st 97H
RAOo 10 ot Al
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rIOUR

we uuots: Fine, a2.5)p3s,95. Slpsg1la,
se.75R99.2s; extra, SS.26aS9.50i family, Ns
$50; patent family. country, ss.7Ss31.sS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09

Miss Clara Barton has made, through the
w ishington Post, an appeal In 0ehsIt OF
the /" Confederate Home NJ Charleston. s.
C., an institution used ~ an asylum for
needy mothers, widows, and daughters o.
Confederate soldiers. which 0f6 Hfnckcd
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09
LATE WEATHER REPORT.

wAsHINGTON, January 81 4. d. -Foy
Virqinia, norfhedsteriy lcinds, TAR heather.
toil6,red by sHotO, becoming slightly ,caroasr.
FOR North Cdr0lind ana South Carolina,
easteriy tciRds, slightly tcarmer, rain.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09

foRT or WCHwoNps JANUARY Q. 1857.
AkRrvgp.
Steamship Breakwater. Jenny, New York.
meschandiae aud p~zengers q. w. Allen
steamer wyoming. Panniii. Philsdsa.
phin. merchandise and passsnssrs. j. ".
EcCaryick. agent.
Steamer Ola Point Comfort, Aimy. CAps
Charles City. merchandise aud pAnssnssn
y. = Baker. AGENT.
CLEARED.
Schooner wendrian fur.l Nsrston. ssn-
Tea. fooF. Haxail-Crensaaw Company.
ronS OF NEWPORT ExwR Jan. .. lssy.
Thy teiesrAph.l
ARRIVED.
Steamship Roanoke. Couch. Heu York.
and sailed Tor West toinL
SAILBD.
eisamsnip vssia. RAwttnsa Livsrpsel
lissSssig pses. NspssaaA. Lsv~pseL
S;sssss!y nssssl!L N(sh~s ~
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COTTON REpORT
Market steady. no receipts.
ouorATIO.D.
Coon MILDLISG.-93sc.
MfDDLINa 1870.
Log NIDDLthG,-s P'lGa.
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Range Of Thermometer Yesterday;
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XLIX. CONGRE ~.
The senate was not in session to-day.
MnnAa nf REPRESENTATIVES,.

WASHINGTON, January ), 1887.
Senate.
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The Weuther IN RjcAm0Rd Yesterday
,raS cold and clear.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-09

You have been spprIsed Of the Arrest OF
Pat. Brewer, thc negro who some months
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

Farmers VINO rSise money rs liort
gaging their live stock, tools and grow
ing crops are generally obliged to pay
a rate of interest that would soon rum
any merchant or manufacturer, and, us
farming is a very risky business, many
who are engaged in il fail to meet their
obligations and are obliged to give up
all they have. Farmers can not eXtri-
cate themselves from the hold of cred
itors as easily as most merchants and
manufacturers can, and failures among
them have become common as the
practice of getting into debt has be.
come the fashion.
In most parts of the West domestic
farming-raising almost every thing
needed for the support of the family
has been abandoned for commercial
farming raising crops for the market
and buying nearly every article needed
on the place. 1t requires greater skill,
more business talent and much larger
capital and better judgment to insure
success in commercial than in domes-
tic farming. Farming in the North,
up to the period of the civil war. was
chiefly domestic farming. 1t did not
involve many risks, and comparatively
few who were temperate and industri-
GUS failed in it. 1t did not require a
skillful trader to get a living by do
nestle farming, as the sales and pur-
chases were few. The more compli.
Gated the business of farming becomes
the greater will be the skill, ability,
Judgment and capital required to con-
duct it. In comparatively few men are
all the qualifications of a good farmer
and a successful trader combined.
Something more than industry and a
fair amount of knowledge of practical
agriculture is wanted to insure success
in commercial farming and meat pro-
duction. 1t is likely that failures in
farming will increase as the business
becomes more complicated, and that
many will be obliged to abandon it for
an occupation that requires less execu-
tive ability, or become farm laborers
in the employ of others Chicago
| Times
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
Too Dignifed BY Half.

Writing lines is the penance Harrow
boys do for all their sins, in and out OF
school. If a boy is late for school, he
writes lines; if he misses "bill," he
writes lines. If the lines are not
finished at stated time, their number
is doubled There was one clever boy
who escaped writing half the ordered
quantity; and the master tells the story
of how he did it 30 this day. He was an
untidy boy and was often taken to task
for his carelessness and disorder, One
day his master, who had very dignified
and impressive manners, and who al
ways said 1--WE" instead of you when
talking to the boys, found occasion to
reprove him.
1--WE do not lool; very clean" he
said, with much severity. I'VE have
not washed our hands this morning.
Have we?"
Il don't know about yours" was the
impudent boys answer, "but I've
washed mine"
"Ahw said the master, eve are very
impertinent to-day. We will have tC
write hundred lines before the neXt
bill.
When "bll' time came, the master
sent for the boy.
Have we written our lines?' hi
| asked.
I've written my fifty" the boy an
swered very promptly, handing in hi
paper; "but l don't know whethe
you've done your half!' - Eiizabet
Robins Pencil, IN 81. Nicholas.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
HINTS TO WRITER'S.
The Work Required to Produce Euphon'
ious Sentences Full of Meaning.

The Work Required to Produce Euphon'
ious Sentences Full of Meaning.
Easy writing involves hard work.
1t costs thought and care to bring into
good form a single sentence that is
full of meaning, and that can be readily
understood. If every word in every
sentence of piece of writing tells il
the direction of the main purpose OF
that writing, you may be sure that its
writer rejected a great many more
words than he used, and that his words
as they stand mark the survival OF
the fittest," in his evolutionary mental
processes. This idea is not commonly
recognized, yet it is suggested in the
very term ''terse," as applied to con-
densed and compacted phrasing. WheL
we speak of "terse writing" we think
of consise and vigorous writing; and
it sometimes seems to us that such
writing may be the free and emphatic
expression of strong and earnest
thinker, without any special labor on
his part. Yet "terse" means wiped"
rubbed" "cleansed;o as applied to
language, it neces sarily involves the
idea of more or less of an eliminating
process. And indeed, as matter of
fact, all terse writing is a result of such a
process. A "proverb" is said to be ''the
wisdom of many and this wit of one,"
which is only another way of saying
that it took long while to bring down
so great truth into so small a COM
pass. Three things are said to be es-
sential to a proper proverb: "sense,
shortness and salt or truth, compact
ness and life. And these three quail
ties are not combined in the spontan-
eous utterances of any mans mind. A
young writer needs to write and re-
write, over and over again, condensing
his writing at every revision, in order
to arrive ar any thing like terseness.
Many a good writer continues this
method all his life through. Yet a
thoroughly disciplined mind can do its
work of choosing and rejecting words
in its process of condensation, without
committing every step of the process:
to paper In one way or another, how.
ever compact writing is always labor.
ious writing. If you find it hard tc
write tersely, you have reason to hope
that you are on the right track in YOU
writing. If you find it easy to write
tersely you may be sure that YOU
work is failure; and even if you art
not sure on that point, your readers
will be.-S. s, Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

lowering in the sun Of those bright
colored, two winged fys sometimes
called drones. Even the patient ass,
that beast OF many woes, is naturally
light-hearted, though his ordinary re-
taxation seldom goes beyond roll
in the dusty road when off duty; but
those who have kept and cared for one
know well enough his loud, clear bray
of honest recognition and joy at the
sight of any one to whom he is at
tached; while an underworked, joyous
donkey, fond of sport, has been seen
to indulge in hunting pigs around a
farmyard, catching and holding them
by the tails until their squeals brought
the owner to the rescue.
No boy out of school shows his sense
of happiness or freedom more strongly
than a horse or pony does when first
turned loose for run at grass; tearing
round the paddock, now stopping for a
moment to snort and ill his lungs with
fresh air, and then, with kick-up of
the heels, continuing his gallop, These
spells of play last longer with some
horses than others, depending often
upon the length of time the animal has
been stable-fed. A horse that is turned
out daily merely trots off a few yards
with a merry laugh before beginning
to nibble the fresh, sweet grass. In
the stable the amusemcnts of horses
too often take the form of wanton mis-
chief, or some such horse-play as UNI
hooking stable-iacket and tearing it
up, or biting holes in their own cloth
ing, kicking their stalls to bits, etc,
while a very playful pony has been
known to indulge in pulling the feath-
ers out of pigeons tails.
Talking of pigeons reminds me Of
the quantity of small talk, gossip, OF
scandal INDUCED in by them and Ger.
tain other birds before retiring fol
the night or beginning work for the
day. House spalTows, starlings and
rocks are all very chatty at these
times, while birds who lead more soil
tary lives nearly always end and begin
the day with song of JOY.
Dogs do not chew or smoke; but {
dog nearly always keeps a store of ia
vorite old bones by him, one of which
he loves to bring to the tireside, to pas
away half an hour before going to bee
gnawing at it, while light-hearted dog
will often end a spell of chewing a
their bone with a game of pitch-and
toss with it, l have even known dog
to play pitch-and-toss with single pei
let of shot One sees more of the do
and cat and their pastimes than o
other animals, but it is likely that in
state of nature most beasts spend quit
as much of their life in killing time a
DO these.-N W. CHRISTIAN AdUtcGte.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
Thai FAMOUS LAMB.

a Story About the "HerO" OF the we'll
Known Nursery Rhymes-HOw the "Old
South Church" Was Helped.
Most of our young readers will be
surprised to hear that the well-known
nursery song of MARY Had Little
Lamb" is true story, and that "Mary"
is still living. About seventy years
ago she was little girl, the daughter
of a farmer in Worcester County, Mass.
She was very fond of going with her
father into the fields to see the sheep,
and one day they found baby-lamb
which was thought to be dead. Kind
hearted little Mary, however, lifted it
up in her arms, and, as it seemed to
breathe, she carried it home, made it a
warm bed near the stove, and nursed it
tenderly Great washer delight when,
after weeks of caqeful feeding and
watching, her little patient began to
grow well and strong, and soon after it
was able to run about. 1t knew its
young mistress perfectly, always came
at her call, and was happy only when
at her side. One day it followed her
to the village school, and, not know
ing what else to do with it, she put it
under her desk and covered it with her
shawl. There it stayed until Mary was
called up to the teachers desk to say
her lesson, and then the lamb walked
quietly after her and the other children
burst out laughing. So the teacher
had to shut the little girls pet in the
wood-shed until school was out. Soon
after this young student, named John
Rollstone, wrote a little poem about
Mary and her lamb and presented it to
her. The lamb grew to be sheep and
lived fer many years, and when at last
it died, Mary grieved so much for il
that her mother took some of its wool
which was "as white as snow" anC
knitted pair of stockings for her, tC
wear in remembrance of her darling
Some years after the lambs death
Mrs. Sarah Hall, u celebrated woman
who wrote books, compC sed som,
verses about Mary's lamb and added
them to those written by John Roll
stone, making the complete poem a
we know it.
Mary took such good care of tn,
stockings made of her lambs fleece
that when she was grOwn-up woman
she gave one of them to church-fai
in Boston. As soon asst became know
that the stocking was made from tn
fleece of "Mary's little lamb" ever,
one wanted piece of it; so the stock
ing was raveled out and the yarn Gu
into short pieces. Each piece was tie'
to a card on which MARY" wrote he
full name, and these cards sold so wei
that they brought the large sum of on
hundred and forty dollars to Oh
South Church.-Amcricdn AgrtcultuI
Isl.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

Three boys of Saybrook, Conn,
out skunk hunting, started a wildcat
which ran up a telegraph pole. They
knocked it down with stones and theil
dog seized it, and very soon showed
decided symptoms of having the wors
of it, Then one of the lads grabbed
the wildcat by the tail, and it turned Oh
him and clawed his hand and arm say
agely He held on, however, and the
other boys managed to club the plucky
cat to death. 1t weighed twenty-five,
pounds. N Y Sun
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
YOUTHS IS = n.e ARTMENT.
MARJoRlE,s KNITTING.

In the chimneycorner our Marjorie sits,
Softly singing the while she knits
The freight Pickering here and there
Plays on her face and her shining hair.
And glittering bright in the fitful glow,
Backward and forward her needles go;
Backward and forward. swift and true,
And bark the needles are singing too
zone and two and three aud four,
Counting and narrowing Ger ana o en-
Knit and rib and seam and purl,
CiclIety, clackety good little girlP
The fire is whispering: Marjorie mine,
TITS positive pleasure on you to shine =.
From your pretty brown hair so smooth and
ueat
Down TO your dainty, trim-slippered feet"
The kettle is murmuring Marjorie DEAR
IT'S all for your sake that I'm bubbling here {;
But though have dubbed both loud and long,
You've ears for naught but those needles
song"
"Ono and two and three and four,
Counting and narrowing DER and DER
Knit and rib and seam and purl,
Clickety, clackety, good little girlI'
AHu NUuJ Is our MdTJOTIb hulbblh5i PA"Js
A soft warm scarf for winter day.
A pair of mittens for school-boy Fred
Or reins for toddling Baby Ned!
can not see, in the twilight gray,
How many needles are working away,
But see them Pickering in and out,
And they know exactly what they are about
zone and two and three and four
Counting and narrowing DER and Ger,
Knit and rib and seam and purl
Clickety, cackety, good little grlP'
Cheerily Marjorie works away,
Nor ever her thoughts from her knitting stray
Whatever it is, twill be sure to ft,
For loving thoughts in the web are knit.
The kettle may bubble, the fire may burn,
But Mariories thoughts they can not turn;
And think that my heart must be knitting
too,
For it seems to sing, as the needles dol
zone and two and three and four,
Counting and narrowing DER and DER.
Knit aud rib and seam and purl,
Clickety, cackety dear little girl"
Laura E. Richards, ia Youths Companion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

"A Springfield Mass man has dis
covered what has long been pretty well
known-that the real mission of the
mosquito is to purify. He had two
hogsheads filed with water, and into
one he put lot of wrigglers or embryo
mosquitoes. The water free from the
wrigglers soon became foul, but that
containing them remained sweet. Sc
he concludes that mosquitoes keep ouI
swamps from becoming foul and pesti
lent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
"KILLlNG" TIME.

Something About the Way in Which AMI
mails Idle Away Moments Which HING
Heavily Upon Their "Hands."
Dogs, though not able to squander
their time over a newspaper, will spend
hour after hour, seated at window,
watching all that passes in the street,
or, in the evening, regarding mouse
hole-not with the slightest idea of
gain or profit, but merely as an agree
able means of passing the time. Then
there are the long-continued flights OF
tame pigeons about our houses, the
quadrille of a house-fy across our cell
ing, the gamboling of gnats, and the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

"A story is told in art circles of a
young American painter who returned
from a course of European study with
not a cent in his pocket. His ambition
was equal to the situation, and he hired
a magnificent studio, filled it with
choice stuffs and bric-a-brac, and pro-
ceeded to take fashionable pupils OF
the gentler sex, having borrowed his
equipment from a fashionable house
decorator, whose business he doomed
at the houses of his pupils parents in
return for the loan of the bric-a-brac
and stuffs. Chicago Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

"A foreign lady who had not be.
come used to the English language was
invited to partake of some oysters. 80,
thank YOU" she replied. "a little Of
the Juice, please none of the beasts"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

Love, the child of trust. is, in time,
the mother Of service.-Dr. JOHN Hall,
Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-02
ACCIDENT ON THE NJ. & G. Il. r.
Engineer McAnnaIIey Injured by
His Train Running Into an
Iron Ore Car.

On Sunday afternoon near Station No.
Ga, (about 80 miles this side of Memphis)
on the NJ. & @. Road, the train on which
Mr.. VIM. McAnnalley was engineer when
rounding curve, an obstruction was dis
covered by him on the main track in the
shape of a fiat car loaded with iron ore.
He Immediately reversed the engine and
whistled alarmingly for the brakes to be
applied but he was too close prevent
collision. Mr.. McAnnalley and his fire.
man both jumped from the engine but
the brave engineer fell over an embanks
ment receiving severe injuries-how Sc
rious we have not been able to learn.
By some mistake, the iron ore car was
left on the main track instead OF being
switched to side track, hence the col
lision.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-02
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Huntsville Daily independ-
ent TO Appear Tuesday, July
the 18th With Full ASsO-
ciated Press Dispatches.
VIM. Donegar

We make formal announcement
that we shall commence the publica
ton Of the THE HUNTSVILLE DAILY
INDEPENDENT beginning July Y,
1887.
Realizing the fact that what the
public wishes is the news at the ear
liest moment, we have secured the
exclusive franchise Of the Associated
Press for this city, and its telegrams
will appear each day in Cur columns
The DAILY will be a sewn column
paper. and the price Of subscription
will be eight dollars per year. Many
improvements will be made in the
WEEKLY which will be published rs
heretofore at one dollar per year.
The DAILY and WEEKLY INDE-
PENDENT will be published by the
INDEPENDENTPUBLIsHlNGCoMPANY
composed of II. Emmett Pettus, w.
Egbert Pettus and NJ. Oscar Pettus,
who will file articles Of declaration
to day We have abundant faith in
the future of Huntsville, Of Madi-
son county and Of North Alabama
to warrant us in the enterprise,
independent.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-02
Cunning Japanese.

WASHINGTON, July l.-An illustration
of the cleverness and initiative powers of
the japanese, which might also serve to
point an argument i'll the discussion of the
International copyright question, is afforded
by certain japanese publications which
have been exhibited to the prominent officers
Of the state department. 1t appears that
when the study of English was made com
pulsory in Japan, q number of American
school books were imported, and by formal
order made the text book of the native
schools.
American bookmakers had quite lucra-
tive trade for time. But the japanese
soon turned their attention to the subject
and after few experiments began turning
out very clever reprints of the American
publications of such excellence and in such
quantities that the demand for the Ameri-
can product has now practically ceased.
The only inferiority Of the japanese books
noticeable at casual examination is in the
Illustrations and this is accounted for by the
fact that the native engrayers have not yet
discovered the art of cutting their pictures
on the grain d of the block, but uniformly
engrave on the side, which results in
slightly blurred picture.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-02
DIR. larkin Transferred.

Presiding Ed a. S L4kin. D. u
haL peeu tr sns'ered from this Dis.
trict to the Missouri Confererence
Rev W. PRETTY man succeeding him
in this work.
What is our 10 ss is Missoures gain
Ripe injudgement and exE eiience, big
Drained and liberal hearted Dir. Lakin
has stood as pilla Y OF strength for
years In the work iof christihnizing
and up liftirg the C slord people here
70 him and his tai snted dang hter
Mrs NJ l.. Ramies cur people owe
on incalcnlabie debt f gratiude.
May Gods blessit tg ever abide
with them aud theirs and their
work here In our mid ct continue TO
yield good fiuits t, sta nd as an en-
during monument to tlsir Christian
resig guai N and snevoLnce.